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TIL that pronghorn is the only animal that has branching horns and sheds them annually.

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XEolP TIL of the Great Tokyo Air Raid (1945) during which 1665 tons of incendiary bombs were dropped on Tokyo in a span of 3 hrs, resulting in 100k deaths and 1M displaced. It's considered the most destructive bombing raid in human history.
VM554 TIL the maître d’ of the Waldorf Hotel in NYC for 50 years, Oscar Tschirky invented the velvet rope and the Waldorf salad
4k94N TIL that some black bears are born white and are called Spirit Bears. They're neither albinos nor polar bears.
QJJ59 Short answer: it depends on how deeply you're sleeping
GYWdE TIL that Serhii Koroliov, head engineer of the soviet space program, was tortured for 6 years in the GULAG prior to sending Yurii Gagarin to space. The other rocket scientists he was arrested with were executed.